After releasing the dance-pop debut Rumors earlier in 2004, Lindsay Lohan [Popstar Mode] returned at the end of that year with Over – a slight gear shift in that it put her in same the pop-rock lane as Ashlee Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and Kelly Clarkson; who were all bringing out guitar-driven albums at around the same time.

Over didn’t grace the US Billboard Hot 100 at all, but it was No1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart for three weeks (essentially meaning it hung around for a while at No101); and it’s her only UK Top 40 hit – entering and peaking at No27 in the spring of 2005. Written by Lohan with pop royalty Kara DioGuardi and John Shanks, it’s an angst-ridden torch song with a big belt-a-long chorus and the kind of dark piano riff that made us teenage gays’n’gals feel like we were all moody and serious-singer-songwritery while wailing along to it.

This was while Lohan was at the height of her Hollywood powers: Over’s platinum-selling parent album, Speak Now, was unleashed at around a similar time, capping off a year that had also seen the release of box office hits Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen and the mighty Mean Girls. And though her music career never really felt like it stuck in quite the same way as, say, Duff’s did; this track more than holds up 17 years later.

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